01:28:22 okay, after a long ordeal in which I thought I'd have to wipe my system, I realized that OneDrive was full which had somehow gotten my machine stuck in a state where it couldn't complete updates which made everything broken 01:28:54 then I was able to install WSL, get started with it, clone crawl from the main repo, and compile it there 01:29:14 then I celebrated by o-tab'ing a MiBe to an early death in an ice cave, as is proper 01:30:09 thanks for your help! 01:30:54 I cannot stress enough that somehow OneDrive was the sand in the gears of my machine that made the whole thing grind to a halt 01:34:44 (also I'm still not 100% sure about the clone of my fork working, but that's something I can play around with now that I have a ground truth to work from) 01:38:57 <11O​dds> Forking the repo and cloning that is definitely an extremely normal way to develop 01:39:33 yeah, I'm under the impression that it's the "normal" way to do pull requests 01:40:10 I have a suspicion the answer involves submodules somehow 01:40:15 but it's bedtime 03:36:53 Experimental (bcrawl) branch on underhound.eu updated to: 0.23-a0-5261-gd9800d219b 05:31:16 <08o​____0> The Error: Can't get version information: git describe failed (no git, no repository, or shallow clone), and util/release_ver doesn't exist. is really common and is mentioned in install.md, you just need to fetch tags so that it can produce a version string 05:36:27 <08o​____0> It would be helpful to add that to the error message if possible 05:37:28 <12g​e0ff> a free PR opportunity! 05:37:35 <08o​____0> yeah looking into it 06:08:38 <08o​____0> !git c0c42a9b796 06:08:40 <04C​erebot> advil * 0.28-a0-402-gc0c42a9b79: build: improve messaging if `git describe` fails (4 years, 8 months ago, 1 file, 8+ 1-) https://github.com/crawl/crawl/commit/c0c42a9b7961 06:08:53 <08o​____0> Ok that's supposed to be the non-cryptic message 😅 06:11:23 New branch created: pull/5229 (1 commit) 13https://github.com/crawl/crawl/pull/5229 06:11:24 03CrawlOdds02 07https://github.com/crawl/crawl/pull/5229 * 0.35-a0-296-g39a33ce3c7: Fix buggy descriptor with easy_floor_use. 10(18 minutes ago, 1 file, 1+ 0-) 13https://github.com/crawl/crawl/commit/39a33ce3c7f4 06:16:49 <12g​e0ff> "build: improve messaging even harder" 06:19:18 <11O​dds> It's not that the message wasn't clear, it's just that knowledge has been lost so we now don't understand the wisdom of the ancients 06:19:19 <08o​____0> It is pretty descriptive I think I just don't know a lot about git to find it helpful 😅 06:19:24 <08o​____0> lol 06:19:32 <08o​____0> yeah that's another way of saying it 19:19:59 <09g​ammafunk> it's not our fault that your git clones are so shallow 23:46:26 Monster database of master branch on crawl.develz.org updated to: 0.35-a0-295-g2878072334